My first review for Philosopher’s Digest was posted today. Here’s the link.
It’s on Jonathan Vogel’s paper “Epistemic Bootstrapping” in The Journal of Philosophy (September 2008)
My first review for Philosopher’s Digest was posted today. Here’s the link.
It’s on Jonathan Vogel’s paper “Epistemic Bootstrapping” in The Journal of Philosophy (September 2008)
We read through that article in JVC’s seminar this semester. Have you seen Weisberg’s manuscript of “Bootstrapping in General”? It’s on the Rutgers Epistemology Conference website: http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/EVENTS/EPISTEMOLOGY/
He argues that NRC does not really block all objectionable cases of bootstrappish reasoning, and that it blocks some legitimate forms of bootstrappish reasoning.
More importantly, he gives a diagnosis of bootstrapping that seems basically right to me.
Hey Justin,
I haven’t read it yet, but it’s next on my list of things to read.